Adam Gurri

where if you really don't fit in with your small town community or your place of birth or your neighbors, you could move to a different neighborhood, you can move to a different town, you can move to a different city, you can get a different job, you can move out of your home.

There's a big part of what we care about at Liberal Currents is also

housing and the, you know, what it was called the yes in my backyard side of things, or what I guess now is called abundance, but basically actually building enough housing and transit and things.

And there was someone we like to quote who said something along the lines of the ideal is that any 18 year old who is, you know, in a household that doesn't tolerate them, either because they're LGBTQ and they're not, or even if, you know, they've converted to

Christianity or some other religion and their parents are not that and they don't feel comfortable there anymore, they should be able to afford on a fairly average salary.

They should be able to get a job that pays enough that they can move out to a place they can afford in a place that has transit and is a vibrant cultural center.

Essentially, the idea is actually allowing for this mobility of individuals.

Sorry, I've gone on for a little while.

Yeah, but I mean, I think...

Most 20th century liberals wanted to set a floor.

And frankly, I mean, there are probably people on the left that would dispute this, but I think they're wrong.

I would put FDR and his whole cohort in the tradition of American liberalism.

Yeah.

And, you know, I think the idea of freedom from want is a good one.

And the basic idea is just you're not actually free like this.

They're actually caring about effective freedom.

And from the beginning, I will say this is something that I think people don't realize.

From the beginning, liberals have cared about both.

sort of rights in terms of just the formal, like defending those, but also the kind of society that's produced.

So the, you know, Jefferson and people were getting rid of primogeniture and entail, which were a specific kind of inheritance law, which, you know, if you care about property, what do you care about?